BY JONAH RASKIN Jonah Raskin reading under the images of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, circa 1970. If you grew up in the 1950s, as I did in a lefty American family, the name Joseph […]
BY NICK LICATA Photograph Source: woodleywonderworks – CC BY 2.0 Conservative commentators and politicians attack the reliability of the “media” since they believe the liberals control it. They often point to television and some social media like […]
BY RICH GIBSON Photograph Source: Jeanne Menjoulet – CC BY 2.0 The counterfeit “union,” the United Auto Workers, found a new way to fake a strike. What’s new? Striking all of the Big Three (each enriched with […]
BY SAM PIZZIGATI E. W. Scripps papers, Ohio University A newspaper cutout of E.W. Scripps, circa 1912. The world’s mightiest press lord of the past half-century has just announced he’s stepping down. The 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch, […]
BY WILLIAM ASTORE Image by Diego González. A progressive Pentagon? Talk about an oxymoron! The Pentagon continues to grow and surge with ever larger budgets, ever more expansive missions (for example, a Space Force to dominate the heavens and yet more […]
BY KOLIN KOBAYASHI Fukushima Unit 3. It has since been dismantled but the other destroyed units are still in danger of collapse. (Photo: IAEA Imagebank) This year marks the 13th year since the Fukushima accident began, […]
BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photo by Markus Spiske It was a short stint, involving a six-member delegation of Australian parliamentarians lobbying members of the US Congress and various relevant officials on one issue: the release of Julian Assange. […]
BY HENRY GIROUX Book burners. Image: JSC and AI Art Generator. In his landmark book The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that social scientists (and educators) have an obligation to address the question of truth and its […]
BY FRANCES MADESON – GREG LAROSE A string of lawsuits lays out allegations of death, violence, negligence and unwarranted arrests, stops and searches against Rapides Parish law enforcement in recent years. Plaintiffs point fingers at leadership […]
BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph Source: Mike MacKenzie – CC BY 2.0 Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a profit opportunity for capitalists, but it presents a crucial choice for the working class. Because the working class is the […]